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DBCS

Changes half-width (single-byte) English letters or katakana within a character string to full-width (double-byte) characters.

TextText Processing

What it does

Converts half-width characters to full-width (double-byte).

Syntax

DBCS(text)

Arguments

  • text(text)Text to convert.

Examples

Convert to Full-Width

Convert 'Excel'.

FORMULA
=DBCS("Excel")
RESULT
Excel
SAMPLE DATA
A
1Text
2Excel